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WCDT: 2434-2438 (29 April-3 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Neko_Ali:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Apr 2013, 08:41 ---If the purpose of webcomics we don't write ourselves were to break new ground rather than entertain, it's worth noting that Jeph is breaking ground by having Claire be just another character. I gather from the comments of several trans people that this has been a breath of fresh air to them.

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It really really is, for me at least. Just having a trans character is impressive. Handling them well is wonderful. Not making the entire character or comic be about them being trans is almost unheard of. Though in fairness to that, most comics which feature trans characters are focused on trans or LGBT stuff, so it's natural and normal that most of the comic revolves around those issues.

GarandMarine:

--- Quote from: ZoeB on 30 Apr 2013, 04:56 ---
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 30 Apr 2013, 03:14 ---@Zoe: As someone who's done a lot of overcoming the past year, I don't think I'd ever get over my inborn automatic response of trying to kill Gordon with the nearest heavy object. Then again I'm so ridiculously arachnophobic it probably qualifies as something more severe....

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My bet is that if Gordon's life was in danger, and you knew for a fact that he was a person, you'd pick him up and take him to safety. THEN collapse in a screaming heap. Amnesia-inducing drugs would be appropriate therapy.

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Probably, I mean Gordon seems quite pleasant, his chassis just flips my beserker switch.

I have tried to over come my arachnophobia, to that end I know a lot about spiders, I've let tarantulas walk on me, I've watch movies, read books, met with experts in the field of spiders  and talked to them. Mentally I respect them as one of nature's oldest and most effective predators. This does not stop me flipping out the buttered fuck crumpets and terminating with extreme prejudice when I see a common house spider. I'm not sure what I'd do dealing with a Huntsman. Probably wake up 24 hours later to a destroyed house and wonder what the hell just happened.

TinPenguin:

--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 30 Apr 2013, 08:43 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 Apr 2013, 08:38 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 30 Apr 2013, 08:26 ---
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 30 Apr 2013, 07:46 ---Though actually Tolkien did change The Hobbit, with a retcon to match the account Bilbo gave in The Lord of the Rings about how he got "Gollum's" ring.
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What.

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Details here.

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Damn it, Tolkien.

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It's not that surprising. He did spend his entire life rewriting and reworking everything he'd ever written, never quite finding satisfaction with it all.

(perhaps this is also/more relevant to the thread on comic #10)

Akima:

--- Quote from: ZoeB on 30 Apr 2013, 04:56 ---I've had to eject two Huntsman spiders from the premisses recently. Catch and Release.
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I am not supposed to kill creepy-crawlies, so I have quite a arsenal of catch-&-release kit. The key weapons are transparent plastic bowls with wooden knobs glued to the base. This allows me to hold the bowl securely, and see the spider etc. through the plastic as I slap the bowl over it. Then I slide a sheet of plastic between the bowl and the wall, floor etc. and take the captured creature outside. As Zoë says, Huntsmen are big and I need my "B-52" 200mm diameter catcher for them. There are Redbacks and occasional Funnel-Webs in my garden, along with the odd poisonous snake. Yes, welcome to Australia.

I have no problem with spiders of any size, but I don't like cockroaches. They really creep me out for some reason, and I sometimes kill them even though I know I should not.

Redball:
In Bombay in the 1960s, I expended a lot of DDT on cockroaches. They infested two places in our apartment: Under the sink and inside the intricately-folded cardboard bookcase provided by the Peace Corps at the time.

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